"the path for the gop's gubernatorial candidate, ken cuccinelli," the chairman says, "looks like this. if turnout is in the 30s, the low 30s, we are going to win." politico points out that in the last presidential election, voter turnout in virginia was 72%. in the last governors race, it was 40%. but the plan and the prayer and the hope of the republican party in virginia this time around is that nobody turns out. they don't want to be at 72% or at 40%. they've got to be down toward maybe 32% or lower, and then the republicans might get their way. that's the only way the republicans can win. they think 32%'s their ceiling. below that, it would be even greater. anything above that, they start to get into trouble. plus, they've got the purge on their side, so there's that. something has ticked over this year. something has been triggered or unleashed somehow in this off-off-year election cycle, where republicans have been willing to admit this in public, that they really do not want you to view. the fewer people vote, the better off republicans are. it's happening in texas, it's happen